Welcome to the website of the North American Academy of Ecumenists. This site is intended as a resource to introduce you to the Academy and to direct you to the Academy's officers and conference information.

The goal of the North American Academy of Ecumenists is to inform, relate, and encourage men and women whose profession or ministry in the church involves them in ecumenical activities and studies. Its unique contribution is to provide ecumenists with an open structure for exploring issues too important to be left exclusively to official ecumenical agencies and projects.

Founded in 1957, the Academy meets annually in September. Its conferences are professional and scholarly in substance and informal in style.

The membership of the Academy includes ecumenically active clergy and laity as well as professors and students. It is an "Academy" by virtue of its members' shared concern for the theological reflection and scholarship that must accompany the movement toward mutual religious understanding and the unity of the Christian churches.

The Academy is affiliated with the Journal of Ecumenical Studies (JES). NAAE membership includes a subscription to the JES.

The NAAE newsletter NAAE Links is available online in pdf form. It is intended to help make connections between members. As many as two newsletters a year may eventually be published. The newsletter hopes to keep the membership abreast of the annual conference plans and significant ecumenical endeavors. Please send notices for the newsletter and inquiries about membership to the Membership Secretary/Treasurer, . • 2004 Issue 1 • 2005 Issue 1, Issue 2 • 2006 No Issue • 2007 Issue 1 • 2008 Issue 1 Published Easter, 2008

The Academy is led by a twenty-one member board which plans the annual conference. Attendance at the conference is open to all who are interested in discussing the proposed theme. See our conference page for further details.

The NAAE website is maintained by and Russell Meyer. In addition to the NAAE material found on this site, there are links to numerous denominational and ecumenical resource pages developed by Nicholas for the Ecumenism in Canada site. These links are external to the NAAE and should be explored with attention to their source and quality.